For the record, I would never have known that if I hadn’t read “The Annotated Big Sleep.” Dive in yourself and learn, if you didn’t already know, that the book was cannibalized from two ...

This week Mirror Book Club members have been getting to grips with the screwy slang and shady saps of Raymond Chandler's classic crime novel The Big Sleep. Chandler is widely credited as being the ...

living away from L.A. I took a class on American detective fiction and read “The Big Sleep.” I don’t think there’s any way to overstate this: That book changed my life. As I made my way ...

He's an L.A. native, book editor, L.A. Times critic-at-large and the founder of the Libros Schmibros Lending Library in Boyle Heights. "'The Big Sleep’ and I think Chandler in general have ...